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Consumers Guide to Buying a Microphone

Posted on 12. Jan, 2010 by Nicólas Crognali.

Are you an audiophile? If you are, you’re not alone. There are tons of people just like you, always striving to find new and exciting entertainment through the use of audio. If you aren’t, you might find an even greater enjoyment through the art of tweaking a recording. A lot of different questions can arise when you’re trying to buy a new microphone. With so many different options, such as condenser microphones and dynamic microphone, it is often common to be lost in a sea of consumer options.

The first barricade you must break is the art of budgeting. The quality of your microphone will vary with how much you are willing to spend. You can spend $10 or even $1000 on buying a microphone that is right for you. For the common user though, a simple Logitech Silver USB desktop microphone from Newegg will serve the purpose.

This article won’t teach you everything you need to know about setting up a home studio, but it will give you an idea of what to look for when buying a microphone.

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2 Sites to Upload and Share Your Songs

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Video sharing has become amazingly popular over the past few years as a way to show off talents (if we can call them that) and just about everything else.  What if you just want to share a nice audio track you made?  What if all you have is a mic and no video camera?

Well, I’m going to tell you about two options you have to share that track around the Internet.

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60 Search Engine Alternatives to Google

Posted on 14. Jul, 2009 by Alex.Braz.

When it comes to search engines, Google is the first one that comes to our minds. There seems to be nothing it can’t find. Okay, except for the meaning of life and other important questions, perhaps. But mostly it can find everything that inhabits the Internet. “Are there alternatives?”, one would ask. Just like children ask their parents, if they can find their recommended amount of B vitamins anywhere else than in spinach.

Well, yes there are. Even if it sounds impossible that there are websites that can do something better than the praised search engine that invented a verb, they exist. At least 60, as a matter of fact. Of course, Google is able to help you with music, photos, shopping, movies, videos and so on, but other services can do it more efficiently.

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Collaborative Music Project: InBFlat.net

Posted on 16. May, 2009 by Kyle Judkins.

The other day I was reading Gizmodo, and I came across one of the coolest things I’d seen in a while.  It’s a collaborative music project called In Bb 2.0.  The best way to experience it is to just go to the website, and check it out for yourself.

However, if I did have to describe it, I would say that it is a way to create your own unique music track from YouTube videos.  I think it is amazing.  Let me know what you think in the comments.

[via Gizmodo]

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3 Simple and Slick Music Search Engines

Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by srikanth.

Love Music? Me too.  In this post, we present three online music streaming sites which are simple and slick. You can directly search for your favorite artist and listen to any songs for free without much of registration hassle.

Why isn’t everything else on the Internet this easy?

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Genuine, Legal and FREE Music Sharing on Jamendo

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Aravind Jose.

Jamendo is a very popular platform for free and genuine music. Artists can upload their tracks and release it under Creative Commons licenses. Users are free to listen or download the tracks. This option for downloading, is what separates Jamendo from to the music discovery sites, which restricts you from downloading the tracks.

Don’t expect to see tracks from popular artists, though. It’s a platform for budding/independent artists, songwriters and music lovers alike. I’ve been enjoying it for a quite while, and some of the tracks there, have made into my favorites list.

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Musebin Wants To Be The Twitter For Music Reviews

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Keshav.

Musebin is a new music review service that lets you make one line reviews of music albums. With micro-blogging and short status services on the rise, such related services are following the trend. Pushing the addictive 140 character vogue forward, Musebin lets you create reviews of 140 characters or less of music albums and let other users vote or comment on them. Moreover, the vote buttons have their own style, you either yea a review or push it down with a nay.

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Follow Your Favorite Artists and Bands With Muspy

Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by Keshav.

Unless you are always hooked to your favorite bands’ every move, it’s sometimes quite usual to find an album that is new to you only to find later that it had been released weeks ago, and your friends and everybody in the town except you has been enjoying their new tunes.

Well, here Muspy comes to the rescue. Muspy has a simple idea. You fill in your favorite artists, and whenever a new album is released from them, you will be notified by email.

You can track as many bands or artists as you like. More over, you can also see all the releases by a particular artist. You can either search for your favorite artists or import all your artists from Last.fm.

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